A talk pleading a case of a Dutch government funded organisation that facilitates the creation of software for public benefit

1. The case for a Dutch ANBSThe case for a Dutch ANBS
foundationfoundation

2. Who am I?
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Jeroen Baten
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Lifetime innovator
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Job title : IT Solutionist

3. Who am I ? (in pics)

4. Why?
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Because I believe we need an ANBS

5. A what?
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ANBS
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Play on ANBI
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Dutch: Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling
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English: Public Beneft rganisation
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ANBS: Algemeen Nut Beogende Software
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Public Beneft Software

6. Some examples from
history
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The need for high volume trafc
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The need for resilient data connections

7. High volume trafc
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1911 US: Long Island Motor Parkway Long Island
Motor Parkway
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1921 US: Federal Aid Highway Act
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“We the people… need highways” :-)
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1932 Bonn-Keulen highway
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1930: NL: We don’t need no highways!
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1937: NL: Den Haag – Zoetermeer ready
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Bottomline: publicly funded infrastructure

8. Resilient Data Connections
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1957: Spoetnik → US: Damn, we need a
network! → DARPA → start research
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1968: We have a plan! → Tender
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29 oktober 1969: First data packet trafc
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1990 US: end of DARPA funding
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1991 US: Start of public funding
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Foundation: Everybody pays their part

9. Where are we now?
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Internet connected software is running
the world.
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Internet infrastructure code is open
source
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But what about the next layer?

10. Current software market
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Primarily commercial market
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Government is neo-liberal:
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The market shall handle it
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The market is the most efcient solution
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The market makes everything cheaper and
better
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Is there nothing else….?

11. Nothing else mattered….
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Educational research funding
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NLNet foundation: “ It funds those with
ideas to fx the internet”
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Well, if it ain’t broken…..
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NW : “NW funds scientifc research...”
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Start-ups? Aka “the market”

12. What do we need?
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We need a way to create software for public beneft.
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Software in the heart of society
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Software for which there is no commercial incentive
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There is no market (yet)
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Like:
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Blockchain+GPG (see my other talk)
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Archiving software for digital assets
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Converting international software to multi-language
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Medical big data analysis for rare diseases

13. Why do we need it?
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How do you feel about being dependent on
a commercial company and its focus?

14. When do we need it?
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Pretty soon

15. Questions for me?: jeroen@jeroenbaten.nl